Bye, Bye (solo show, 2018)

Paintings I made for my solo art show "Bye, Bye" that opened April 7th, 2018.

These works are all depictions of entropy and the flux between order and chaos that all things exist in. I called the show ‘Bye, Bye’ because when one utters those words they are verbally demarcating the transitional moment of being here and of being elsewhere; you are signaling a transition, a separation, and a disruption. The paintings incite the viewer to ask: are things disintegrating or are things coming together? However, as the works are paintings, unencumbered by temporal restrictions, another question is posed: is there even a distinction between the two?

Sunflowers

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

24" x 30"

Entropy No. 3

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas24'' x 36''

Melt

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

20" x 30"

Bela

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas20" x 30"

Bullseye

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas48" x 36"

Hat and Cats Redux

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

16" x 20"

Entropy No. 1

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas16" x 16"

Entropy No. 2

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas18" x 14"

Been There, Done That

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

18" x 24"

I'm Here

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas30" x 40"

Koi

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

36" x 48"

Make Me

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

24" x 24"

Origin of the World

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

18" x 24"

Us

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

60" x 48"

White

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

14" x 18"

Black

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

14" x 18"

Entropy No. 4

Oil and Crackle Paste on Canvas

24” x 36”

Resplendent Tendencies (solo show, 2017)

Art made for my solo show "Resplendent Tendencies" which opened on June 3rd, 2017.

This series of paintings is characterized by experimentation with multiple levels of abstraction and sparse compositions. After spending the entirety of 2016 painting in a realist style with oil paint I wanted to try new mediums and I wanted to play with the boundaries and the limits of capturing the essence of something. With this step away from realism also came questions of what is of absolute necessity in portraiture and what can be omitted from a scene to achieve a more direct affect.